Psychology Faculty
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Michael Baker Mike Baker teaches Statistical Measures in the Behavioral Sciences, Learning and Behavior, Drugs and Behavior, and Behavioral Neuroscience. His Seminar in Psychology topics were Addiction, and most recently, Learning & Behavior Therapy. He is a behavioral neuroscientist whose training is in psychopharmacology. His research interests include consequences of prenatal and postnatal exposure to drugs of abuse such as cocaine and amphetamine, mechanisms of reward and addiction, and sex differences in responses to drugs of abuse. |
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Wendy Dunn Wendy Dunn teaches courses in the areas of Introductory Psychology, Psychological Testing, and Abnormal Psychology. Her research interests concern how people make decisions about others, especially in personnel selection situations. In particular, she is interested in how personality traits, such as conscientiousness and extraversion, are judged by others as being related to performance in jobs of different types. She also investigates how other characteristics, such as physical attractiveness and intelligence are evaluated and how they figure into decision processes. She is just beginning a second line of research looking at how adolescents versus young adults weigh difficult decisions, especially when these involve emotional issues. |
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Sara K. Farrell Sara Farrell teaches courses in industrial psychology, developmental psychology, and introductory psychology. Her most recent Seminar in Psychology was Gender and Work. Dr. Farrell’s research interests include the use of impression management behaviors at work, organizational justice perceptions, and bias in the workplace. Specifically, her research has investigated how employees react when their coworkers take part in organizational citizenship behaviors in attempt to “get ahead” in the workplace. Her recent research has investigated how various characteristics such as coworker gender and organizational politics impact these reactions. |
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Daniel A. Lehn Dan Lehn's primary teaching areas are Social Psychology, Personality, and Origins of Contemporary Psychology. In addition, he regularly teaches Introductory Psychology and Statistical Methods in the Behavioral Sciences. His seminar topics include Humor, Relationships, and Emotion. For the past several years, Dr. Lehn and his undergraduate research assistants have been collaborating with Jay G. Hull (Dartmouth College) in investigating the way people process information about themselves and how it is related to their personality traits and to situational factors. |
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Thomas B. Moye Tom Moye is trained in the areas of experimental psychology and behavioral neuroscience. His teaching interests include Biopsychology, Research Methods in Psychology, and Introductory Psychology. In addition, he occasionally teaches in the areas of Psychopharmacology and Developmental Psychology. His research focuses on perceptual factors that influence our visual judgements of causality. In particular, he is studying how Pavlovian conditioning processes influence our judgement of movement caused by collision of moving objects. |
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Nükhet Yarbrough Nükhet Yarbrough teaches Memory and Cognition, Developmental Psychology and Counseling Psychology. Her most recent Seminar was in Multicultural Psychology. Her research focuses on memory processes in creative thinking. In particular she is interested in the effect of priming on memory retrieval for individuals who score high or low on divergent thinking tests. She is also interested in the effects of priming and perceptual ambiguity |
